Ohio University Student Finds Out His Professor Is Rather Chill After Skipping Class To Attend World Series

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An Ohio University student named Charlie got a sweet surprise from his dad earlier this week: tickets to Game 1 of the World Series in Cleveland for Charlie and his brother.

The only problem: Charlie had class that night.

So he did what any resourceful college student would do in this dilemma. He checked into class, handed his homework to another student to turn in for him and then quietly dipped out to go to the game.

When his professor took attendance at the end of class, though, Charlie wasn’t there.

Below is their email exchange.

Professor R. Damian Nance is a cool dude. I get that. HOWEVER, the simple fact that this story became a national headline is just a reflection of the asshole professors roaming the halls of our universities. I actually think it should have been a bigger story if Nance wouldn’t have let him skip class — if he was all, “Nah. Sorry, Chuck. Rules is rules. I don’t care that your father got you World Series tix and you’re a diehard Tribe fan. Zero tolerance, my dude. You failed my class, you little fucker.”

Are there professors out there who actually wouldn’t bend their rules for a student to attend Game 1 of the World Series? Sure there are, but not many, I would guess. I mean Cleveland hasn’t won one since World War 2. What kind of self-righteous dweeb would you have to be to enforce your attendance policy at a time like this? Just thinking out loud here.

Dillon Cheverere (@DCheverere) is the Vice President of Media for Grandex, Inc. He's a native Texan with a full head of hair and knows his way around a nice box of red wine. Dorn graduated (BBA) with a GPA sitting in the meaty part of the bell curve, not lagging behind, but not trying to show off, either. Golf is his game now. He's long off the tee but can't putt for shit. Email: dillon@grandex.co

Knew a guy who worked an evening job waiting tables and would go on to print labels that same night, pretty much working 12 hours from 6pm-6am and he would still show up for our 8am. He would be late sometimes from oversleeping trying to take a nap before class, and our professor had a 3-tardy-only policy or she would pull an instructor initiated drop. Long story short, the cunt dropped him, he graduated a year late.

If rules were not allowed to be broken it would be a much better world. Sure some loser fuck in Cleveland would lose attendance points for truancy, but every time I gave a girl a ride in my car though…